Sunday, February 21, 2010

A friend of mine searched the internet for a couple of days looking for samples from the new Missal translation, and I think you will be impressed with the results. They have great dignity, certainly as compared with the current translation stemming from the great mistake of 1970. See what you think.

1st Sunday of Advent Collect Grant, we pray, almighty God, that your faithful may resolve to run forth with righteous deeds, to meet your Christ who is coming, so that gathered at His right hand they may be worthy to possess the heavenly kingdom.

Prayer after Communion May the mysteries we have celebrated profit us, we pray, O Lord, for even now, as we journey through the passing world, you teach us by them to love the things of heaven and hold fast to what will endure.

2nd Sunday of AdventFriday Collect Grant your people, we pray, almighty God, to keep wide awake for the coming of your Only-Begotten Son, that as He Himself, the author of our salvation, has taught, we may be alert, with lamps alight, and hurry out to greet Him as He comes.

4th Sunday of Advent Collect Stir up your power, we pray, O Lord, and come, that with you to protect us we may find rescue from the looming dangers of our sins, and with you to set us free, be found worthy of salvation.

December 20 Collect O God, eternal majesty, whose ineffable Word the immaculate Virgin received through the message of an Angel, we pray that, following the example of her who became the dwelling place of divinity, and is filled with the light of the Holy Spirit, we may humbly hold fast to your will.

Baptism of the Lord Collect Almighty everlasting God, You solemnly declared the Christ to be your beloved Son as the Holy Spirit descended upon Him after His baptism in the River Jordan grant that your children of adoption reborn of water and the Holy Spirit, may continue always to be those in whom you are well pleased.

Ash Wednesday Collect Grant us, Lord, to begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service that, as we fight against spiritual evils, we may be armed with the weapons of self restraint.

1st Sunday of Lent Collect Grant us, almighty God, through our yearly exercises in the holy Season of Lent, to grow in understanding of the riches hidden in Christ and to pursue their effects by a worthy way of life.Tuesday Prayer after Communion Grant us through these mysteries, Lord, that by tempering earthly desires we may learn to love the things of heaven.

2nd Sunday of LentThursday Solemn Blessing Stay with your servants, Lord, who implore the help of your grace, that it may bring them the shelter and guidance of your protection.

4th Sunday of Lent Collect O God, who through your Word are accompanying in a wonderful way the reconciliation of the human race, give the Christian people strength, we pray, to hasten with keen devotion and eager faith toward the solemn celebrations to come.

Holy WeekWednesday Prayer after Communion Fill our minds, almighty God, with sure confidence that, through your Son’s Death in time, to which awesome mysteries bear witness, you have given us perpetual life.

2nd Sunday of Easter Collect God of everlasting mercy, who in the return of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people consecrated as your own, increase the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in whose font they have been washed, by whose spirit they have been reborn, through whose blood they have been redeemed.

5th Sunday of EasterSaturday Collect Almighty eternal God, who have been pleased to confer on us heavenly life through our rebirth in Baptism…

Ascension Solemn Blessing May almighty God bless you, for his Only-Begotten Son pierced the heights of heaven on this day and unlocked for you the way to ascend where he has gone.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Offertory O God, who in the gifts presented here nourish with food and renew with Sacrament the twofold nature of the human race, grant, we pray, that their sustenance may not fail us in body or in mind.

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Prayer after Communion Renewed by the nourishment of the Sacred Body and the Precious Blood, we ask your clemency, Lord, that what we celebrate with constant devotion, we may attain with redemption assured.

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect May your grace, O Lord, we pray, at all times go before us and follow after, and make us always firm in the resolve to do what is good.

August 28 : St Augustine Prayer after Communion May the partaking of the table of Christ sanctify us, we pray, O Lord, that, being made His members, we may be what we have received.

October 17 : St Ignatius Collect May the offering of our worship be pleasing to you, O Lord, who accepted Saint Ignatius, the wheat of Christ, made pure bread through the suffering of his martyrdom.

October 18 : St Paul of the Cross Offertory Look kindly, almighty God, upon the sacrificial gifts we offer in commemoration of Saint Paul, and grant that we who celebrate the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion may imitate what we now do.

Dedication Feast Collect Let your consecrated people reap the fruits and joy of your blessing, Lord, we pray, so that they may know that what they have offered in bodily worship on this festival day they have received in return as a spiritual gift.